So...whats for dinner?
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Dinner tonight was fresh green beans and small golden potatoes seasoned with salt, pepper, onion powder and two slices of bacon, cut into small pieces and browned in the pot before adding water, some chicken broth and the beans and potatoes. Also homemade fish sticks made with halibut out of the freezer (caught in Alaska this summer on our rv trip). I used a recipe out of Cooking Light. Coated the fish in flour dipped it into an egg mixture and then coated it with panko crumbs. Baked in hot oven on pre-heated pan.
I love sweet potatoes. Grew up eating them. They have to be "aged" for a time after they're dug in order to be good for baking. My mother bakes them unwrapped in a pan until the skins are dark and the sugar is oozing out. Left over baked sweet potatoes are delicious when panfried in a little butter. I usually peel them and slice them length-ways and brown them in the hot butter until they're crusty on the outside.
DH and I will be in IL at his sister's house for Thanksgiving. She always cooks a traditional sweet potato dish that is very sweet with brown sugar and eggs and vanilla and topped with browned marshmallows. It is served in her (and DH's) grandmother's special serving bowl. Which, of course, has to be hand-washed along with the china and crystal and silverware and other serving dishes. She uses fresh baked potatoes, not canned.
I'm just as glad to be a guest and lend a hand rather than be in charge of cooking a big holiday meal. Lazy me.
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I will be having about 11 over for Thanksgiving.
Your such a good cook Michelle
We had tuna sandwiches for supper but it was good.
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Laurie,
I usually go by a couple of things.... I tend to give any illness that feels routine about 5 days.... The general trend normally is... Feel a little crappy day 1... Day 2 and 3 are horrid... Day 4 you feel a pinch better and the the 5th day you feel like you've turned the corner.... It may linger on for a bit but, you feel like you are on the mend.... Anything that goes longer without any improvement may warrant a visit to the Dr.
Also, anything more severe, like difficulty breathing, severe cough, high fever, stiff neck warrants not taking a wait it out but rather a Dr appointment...
That being said... I had a cold last month... my first in 2 years and it just did NOT want to let go! I had a temp, aches and chills along with fatigue for 3 days, felt a bit better for a couple days and then, wham.... the sneezing, runny nose, cold junk set in..... Took the better part of 2 weeks before I was done.... Never progressed to something where I had to go to the Dr.... Just a real pain!0 -
Carolehalston,
We go to my brother's house for Thanksgiving... He does dinner for roughly 20... He provides the Turkeys (he does 3... 2 roasted and 1 deep fried).... My Mom helps.... The rest of us bring a side or dessert... It's crazy yet fun!
Deborye,
Your menu sounds so good! I'm afraid I have not yet mastered getting that many things to be ready all at the same time! Glsd your daughter is coming in to help!0 -
Thank-you all so much for your prayers and sweet words, You make me feel loved! Your all so wonderful- Loved the picture seaside- that is the cutest thing I've ever seen.!! (sorry about your burn) ;-(((
We got home late tonight, had a message from the hospital to call and make an appointment to come in a do a MRI- Hope they can get me right in so I dont have to much longer for results and radiolosgist probably won't tell me much tomorrow but I will call the Onoc's office tomorrow and see if they will tell me anything or as too why they are having me do the MRI.
I had a bone density test 2 years ago and it showed I had very low bone density and was suppose to take boniva but it made my bones hurt really bad so had to stop taking it. I'm pretty sure it is probably arthritis or osteoathritis. I probably shouldnt have mentioned it until I knew for sure but I thought the prayers couldnt hurt
Laurie- Hope you get better soon!
Will let you all know anything as soon as I know-
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No news is good news Debbie, must mean they haven't found anything, but are being diligent and just making sure. I wam continuing to send you good thoughts.
Laurie, I hope you feel better. I stay out of doctors as long as possible too.
Jacksnana, thank you for that recipe, it sounds good! I think I will try it for thanksgiving. I made a turkey breast last night with a sweet potato cranberry casserole recipe I found on line. DH really liked it. I did too, was trying to use up some cranberries we got from CSA. I like the sound of yours better though.
Had my every three month echo for herceptin yesterday. Found out there has been a big change in my heart and now it is functioning somewhere between low normal and mild heart failure. The fun never ends with this. Will see a cardiologist this week. Onc told me not to worry, they will be able to get the function back up. Does anyone else feel just when they relax and feel comfortable the other shoe always seems to drop?0 -
Debbie - it's so good to hear from you! We'll all be sending positive thoughts for an MRI that shows nothing serious. Hope you can feel the love!
Kay - (((hugs))). I know what you mean - that is exactly how I felt early this year when I had thought my BC journey was over, and then...I found out I had barely just begun! I wonder if your cardiologist will have an opinion about continuing with herceptin. It's hard not to be worried, regardless of your onc's comment.
Laurie - I agree with Seaside's comments about not waiting too long to go to the doctor. My daughter waited and waited, then went for an inhaler and drugs to help with the cough. Finally, after at least three weeks, she went back and they put her on a z-pack. She probably had pneumonia by the time she got antibiotics. There's a fine line between toughing it out and waiting too long.
Carole - homemade fish sticks, what a yummy idea! Unfortunately, my DH would prefer I never cook fish. i can sneak it in there once in a while, preferably on the grill. He'll eat shellfish, though. I took a cue from the grocery stores where they are selling sweet potatoes wrapped in plastic and ready for the microwave. So that's what I did with mine. Ten minutes, then resting for a few minutes and they were nice and soft, ready for butter and a little cinnamon/splenda mix. Very yummy!
Deborye - thanks for the compliment. I've been cooking since I was 10. My dad decided that I would not be like my mother, who couldn't boil water when they got married. So I learned very early. By the time I was 12, I could pull off the whole family dinner - there were 6 of us. And I baked the birthday cakes for everyone until I was 16.
Seaside - cooking a big holiday meal is like Project Management 101. I remember being in a project management training class and the instructor asked who had never managed a project. Many women raised their hands and so I said, "if you've cooked Thanksgiving dinner, you've managed a project!"
Joycek should be flying home today from Florida. I'm hoping she checks in with us soon.
I have an appt with my RO early this afternoon. Hopefully this show will get on the road soon. I'd like to be done with treatments.
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Seaside, that's pretty much the way my family does Christmas. We gather at my sister's house, which is laid out to accommodate a large group. She usually cooks a turkey which her DH gets from his employer. Also mashed potatoes w/ cream cheese. Also fresh cranberries. Somebody else, a brother or me, cooks a large pork roast stuffed Cajun style with chopped green onions, garlic and cayenne pepper, s & p. One SIL brings a big pan of cornbread dressing. I bring several dishes, including German potato salad out of the old Good Housekeeping recipe book, creamed spinach and artichoke casserole, sometimes a corn casserole, maybe a green salad that hardly anyone eats. Dessert isn't a highlight, but we usually have an assortment of pies, cookies, and cakes.
It's self-serving buffet style. No alcohol because the dominant religion among the group is Baptist. Beverages are cola or water. Coffee later. And we eat between noon and 1 pm.
Thanksgiving at my SIL's house in ILL will be about 4pm. By then everyone is starving. Service is family style at the table with all the dishes passed. Red and white wine and water. Beautifully set table with a centerpiece. Place cards made by the grandchildren. It's all very Norman Rockwell and nice and totally unlike holidays in my family where the emphasis is on the food and visiting. I guess we lack class!
My mother loves for us to have a shrimp mold with crackers to snack on prior to a holiday dinner but we eat too early to allow for snacking before such a large meal. There are lots of left-overs and most of the family take something home with them.
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Michelle- I hope your appointment went well this afternoon.
Kay- I can not imagine how frustrated you must be about the heart test. I am so sorry you got not great news, but I am glad that you can heal from it. I have a friend with stage IV that went through the same thing and her heart is back in good condition now, but it was a very low time for her when she got crappy initial results. ((hugs))
Joyce- Have a safe trip and let us know you got here ok. I hope your fatigue goes away once you get home in your own bed and perhaps relax a bit.
Debbie- Thanks for keeping us posted on how you're doing, it was nice to wake up to your post this morning.
Carol- Your Thanksgiving sounds great, I am glad my house is not the only house that dessert is not the highlight. Since I am the one who makes it it's always pretty simple. My husband however cooks the most amazing turkey, it always looks like something from a magazine!
I am hanging in there health wise. It's not getting any worse or better, more of a holding pattern. If I don't see improvement by Friday maybe I'll go to a Dr. Tonight my husband has to work late so I am thinking quesadilla's for me and the boys.
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Joyce - hope your trip home is uneventful and you don't get stuck in Baltimore. I'll call you tomorrow.
I am home from my RO visit. I have my hour-long planning session on Thursday - there will be 5 tattoos - I tried to talk them into using a marker but it was not going to happen. If it happens the way it was described, none will be visible except maybe the ones down the breastbone if I am in a bathing suit. Not happy but it's all about pinpoint accuracy, so it's hard to argue about it. I'll have my dry run on 11/29 then rads will start the next day. I'll be doing 30 sessions with the only boosts going to my scar line. On the one hand I am not looking forward to the daily trips; on the other hand, I just want to be done.
We usually have Thanksgiving dinner around 4:00. We learned a long time ago that everyone likes to have pork pie (tortiere) in the morning so we eat those around 9 or 10. And we'll have dessert around 7, after we've cleaned up the dinner mess and everyone has had a chance to digest their stuffing.
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Michelle- do you do the pork stuffing?
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Laurie - I haven't made it in a long time because we have the pork pies in the morning and DH likes sausage cornbread stuffing. But I have made it - in my family it's essentially the same as the pork pie filling (the meat mixed with potatoes). My ex-husbands mother mixed it with bread so that it was more like a typical stuffing. Do you make it?
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LuvRVing I hope things go well for you. I had my f/u rads appt today I asked if I could get the breast bone one removed. I got a very reluctant yes from the RO, but not the others.because if it returns they want to know what was radiated I asked if it could be brown instead of black, was told, brown doesn't last
Laurie Glad you are hanging in there. With kids get checked out early they bring so many things home. Gosh, I sound like I'm talking about my cats and mice! But glad you're doing better Take care of yourself!
To the rest, I am hoping for the best for you.
For dinner. tonight and the last 2 nights and probably tomorrow lentle soup with spinach, crackers, and tonight local herb and garlic cheese. I'm on a budget and tend to make a huge pot of soup and eat it all week with crackers, bread and salad or fruit/cheese.
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Michelle- I do make the pork stuffing- it's basically hot gorton in a different consistency. No matter how much I make- it is always eaten!
Bedo- thanks! Your soup sounds good, I have a black bean soup I haven't made in forever, you might have inspired me
Kids are gobbling down the quesadillas as I type, I love full bellies with no fight!
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MRI is scheduled for tomorrow at 3 pm. They didn't really give me a reason, just said they wanted a better look.
Michelle- I Hope your rads go fast and uneventful for you, I never had rads before, are the tatoos permanent? Keeping you in my prayers too!
Kay- Sending you good thoughts and prayers for you, I'm sorry your test turned out not so good on your echo, hoping as Laurie said it can mend it self and get stronger.
Joyce- Hope you made your connection and are home safe now.
Carol- Your menu sounds really delicious for Thanksgiving. And gotta have that wine with it too LOL!
Laurie- Seems like I'm repeating myself with things going on with everyone this week, but hope you get better too soon and dont wait to go in to the ER if it goes in your chest!
Bedo- Your soup sounds yummy, I made chili with corn bread tonight was really good.
It will just be me and my DH for thanks-giving this year, he has to work but will be home around 4 or 5 so I will make a turkey breast with dressing on the side, sweet potatoes, green bean bundles, fruit salad, and mashed potatoes and gravy
What is a pork pie? Must be a east coast food.
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Never heard of porkpie either and I've been an east coast girl all my life. I am guessing it's French? Debbie, your menu sounds delicious, pretty much what we will be having. And my DD told me yesterday to make sure I don't forget the pills bury crescent rolls. LOL, must have omitted them one year, my son is coming home from grad school (he's 23), with his girl friend for thanksgiving. Yikes!
Not worried that they're serious, just nervous to meet her.
Debbie, thinking of you with your MRI today. I am sending strong thoughts for good news and no anxiety. Good luck.
Thanks everyone on the thoughts and ideas on the heart. They really do not seem concerned, so that must be a good sign. See cardiologist tomorrow.0 -
Pork pie, or tourtiere, is French Canadian but very popular here in the upper northeast because there are lots of us with that heritage here in the area. You can buy these pies in some grocery stores or bakery shops, even though you can't find them anywhere else in the country. In my family, we make them by taking ground pork butt (not just any ground pork will do), salt, onions, cinnamon and cloves and cook it on top of the stove until the meat is nicely done. You don't want to brown the meat so it's more "boiled" than browned. We use about a quart of cooked meat and mix it with 3 or 4 medium potatoes that have been boiled. Mash that all together and put it in a pie shell, cover with the second pie crust and bake. Like marinara or any other ethnic food, there are lots of variations in spices, specific meats used, and mixers. Some recipes call for mushrooms and bread crumbs. But my recipe is the way my Memere made it and she was from Quebec. A similar regional specialty is salmon pie, easily made with canned salmon and potatoes. It's another version of a tourtiere and again, you will find regional differences.
The "gorton" that Laurie mentioned is the same pork that is used in the pie. To make gorton, you cook the meat for a few hours so that when it cools, you can use it as a pate. Gorton on toast is a very popular breakfast around our house. So I usually cook about 5 pounds of pork butt with all the seasonings, take out enough for a pork pie after about an hour, then finish off the rest of it to make gorton.
Debbie - the rads tattoos are permanent. If I want them removed, I'll have to go visit deborye's employer after I finish. Good luck with your MRI today, sending positive thoughts for nothing serious.
Joyce - did you make it home last night?
Laurie - are you better this morning? My DD finally went to the doctor, she is on her second course of antibiotics after the z-pack didn't do a thing to help. She may have pneumonia, the doctor said she heard rattling in her left lung.
Bedo - I could get my tattoos removed as I won't be able to have the same area radiated ever again...this is the second time for my left side.
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I had my tattoo that was on my breast bone and looked like a big blackhead REMOVED. It was visible when I wore a scoop neck blouse. If it comes back in the same breast, I was told they can not radiate that area again and I would have a Mast.
I work for an aesthetic laser company and we are testing out new tattoo removal lasers so I volunteered.
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This year I'll be fixing Thanksgiving dinner for a hundred or so people. I will have help but for the 15th time I'll be in charge. When the Senior Center first opened in '94 we started with Sunday breakfast and gradually added other meals as we found more volunteers so we never even considered doing dinners for the Holidays. In '96 we were serving 7 days a week. The Board decided to close for Thanksgiving and Christmas because "everyone had someplace to go." One Board member and I were making lunch the Friday before T'day and talked about it. We knew they were mistaken and decided to do dinner. We put up a handwritten notice, bought two 25 lb turkeys and served 30+ people. The Center has served dinner every holiday since. Until three years ago there was nowhere else in town serving a family style dinner and half the restaurants in town closed. In 2006 we served over 250 people. The next year one of the largest churches in town had a dinner and we had just under 200. Since then others have started other dinners and we only expect 100 to 125 this year. For many in our community Dinner at the Center has become a tradition.
We'll be doing turkey with all the trimmings. Most side dishes like sweet potatoes, fruit salads etc. will be pot luck. Turkeys will be done off site. I'm in charge of the kitchen and do the dressing and gravy, oversee the rest of the final preparations such as the mashed potatoes, carving and serving. I will probably, depending on the final response to our request for prepared dishes, also have to do some dessert, beans or sweet potatoes. Fortunately I'll have a helper Wednesday to help with that.
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Hi all, my RO said that if they radiate the other side, they need to know where to stop. I asked if they didn't take measurements and all on the machine??? She said a picture isn't accurate, which is not what I asked, but as usual when I go there I start speaking Martian and no one can understand me, but she did say a reluctant yes. For dinner tonight the last of the lentil soup!
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Michelle- Yum!! Your porkpie sounds really, really good, I will have to try that sometime, know my DH will love it, thanks for sharing the recipe!
Chabba- Sounds like you will be very busy for Thanks-giving, As Michelle said, It is like project manegment 101- They are very lucky to have you!
We are having tons of rain, and wind is expected to get 60+ today hope it calms down by the time I have to go to the hospital for scan, We have a lot of big trees around our house so im a little nervous, I dont do well in storms LOL!
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Michelle explained pork pie/pork stuffing/gorton perfectly. We haven't done the pork pie since my Memere was alive. But I am looking forward to the pork stuffing. We'll have 10 people over here for Thanksgiving, we keep it simple and yummy
Chabba- Wow! What an amazing job you do!
I am feeling a bit better today, not as achy or run down feeling. Today my boys have been giving me a run for it. I am thankful that I have plans to head out this evening for some Mexican with girlfriends. I could really use a night out! Debbie- I'll think of you when I order my margarita!
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Laurie- LOL! That just what the dr ordered for you to get better ( Margarita's)
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Debbie LOL! I figure if I am healthy enough to cook, clean, do laundry, run errands and take care of the kids I am healthy enough to go out and have a drink
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Here, here, Laurie!!! Totally agree with you! Enjoy that margarita, every last sip!
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Its hard to be sick when you have little ones. and you deserve more than just one, thats for sure!
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I had 2! And some nachos and baby bean and cheese chimi's. It was very yummy and much deserved. Downside is I have almost no voice left from trying to talk in a restaurant for 2 hours. I think my husband might be happy for the silence though, lol!
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Love Margaritas, when I went out shopping one time with Rebekah she introduced me to one or two, LOL.
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Deb-
My Mom and I went out one day when she was having a good day- about 2 months before she passed away and went to my favorite mexican place. They have fresh squeezed mix made daily, it is wonderful. We were ordering and I got a margarita and she said she had never had one...but she shouldn't. I asked her if she couldn't....she said no- she shouldn't....she ordered one and then a second. She loved it! When I brought her back to my dad we were like two school girls trying to hide the fact from him so he wouldn't be upset, but we kept giggling. It didn't make or break a damn thing with her health, but it sure made for a great memory together. I'm glad she passed knowing she had a kick ass margarita *with me*.
My happy thought for the night. Thanks for making me think Deb
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Laurie when my Mom was sick we knew that "the docs" would be making rounds soon. We put an open Playgirl magazine open to the centerfold on her chest right before they came. She pretended to be asleep. I sat knitting in the corner. When " The Team" came in and their eyes bugged out I asked if they could come back later, as "She was up late" Truly priceless. They came back later in the afternoon.
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